To cope with employee and customer theft, many retailers are upping their investment in surveillance systems and technology. Digital security systems, remote and live viewing, and point of sale monitoring of trends and patterns may help to deter and prosecute individual and organized retail theft by consumers.

However, there is a much simpler solution for employee [...]

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As I was driving into work this morning, I heard a story on NPR about a new study from Deloitte & Touche that examines “what’s going wrong in the workplace, from harassment to embezzlement and theft.” They found that supervisors tend to “set the standard on how to behave.”

At the Deloitte & Touche website, ethical [...]

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National Business Ethics Survey (NBES) has reported that more than more than half of American workers have observed at least one type of ethical misconduct in the workplace. The NBES defines misconduct as any behavior that violates the law or organizational ethics standards. The two most common types of misconduct observed by employees are abusive [...]

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Lifetime Television, the women’s cable network, has issued the findings from their workplace survey of women.

The survey concerned workplace attitudes and behaviors, especially those concerning the boss-employee relationship, job fit, and workplace ethics.

Boss-Employee (What about co-workers? departments? teams?)

Who’s the ideal boss? If male, Bill Gates (38%). If female, Oprah Winfrey (58%).
Three times more women would [...]

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